Sunday
 

Good morning. So far my weekend has been very quiet. My scales are not coming down but they are not going up. If I can maintain over the weekend I can get a loss by Thursday. Weekends are so full of temptations
It had really warmed up here. I even put the air conditioner on for awhile yesterday.
I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Good Morning everyone,

Eleni,, I love those attachments that you come up with. Where do you find them?

Christie.... I had a book on the SB diet and loaned it to another woman in tops and never got it back. I hadn't read it, only looked thru it some. Is it a diet where you can eat all the fat and protein that you want, but you lay off the carbs? I would like to know more about it.

CC....5 1/2 lbs vanished, forever. Good job!!

Sherri.....How did it go with your uncle? I hope he is doing okay.

I'm finally getting back to dieting again. With so much going on here, I just didn't want to watch my food intake. I have gained some weight, but now I want to lose.
Our chapter is having our yearly open house next Friday and the the theme is a western TOPS Round-Up. We already have 3 new members since the first of the year and that puts us up to 51 members. We're going to have the FL state king in 2000, Norris Mentin, as a guest speaker and some of the ladies are going to demonstrate line dancing. We had Norris as a speaker last year and the women showed off for him by having a 49# loss that day. Hope we can do it again this year. Anyway, it should be a lot of fun.

DH is doing good. He had his second treatments and is on a "high" . Prednisone is one of his meds (he takes it for 5 days after threatment) and he's always more active when he is on that. He used to sit around, too tired to do anything, now he is looking for places to go and things to do. We're off in a few minutes to meet his sister that lives in Orlando.

Hope you all have a good Sunday.

Tops (((hugs))) to all of you.

Nita

Good Morning!!!

Well, had a good day yesterday, picked up SB and a new workout suit. I love Winners! Same pants would have cost me $59 bucks here in town $19.99 at Winner’s. so I splurged and bought a top as well. I feel very athletic when I put it on. Hubby looks smashing in his new specs, actually DIDN”T pick up aviators, got a sweet pair of smaller framed glasses in a bronzy colour. Very Chic, think I will keep him around.

Sherri Did you have your date or did hubby stand you up? Mine would have stood me up. He is not a big drinker but once or twice a year he goes out with the guys and I know my weekend will be shot. He always promises to have only a couple and then…………..Well he comes home around 4 or 5 hammered, apologetic, and goes to bed. (Usually for the rest of the weekend) Then he is my love slave!!! He will do almost anything to make up for his misadventure. I have had fences built, tubs re-caulked etc... Hasn’t happened for around 2 years though and the work is piling up! LOL

Christie, picked up Sugar Busters and read it cover to cover in a little over an hour. It is very easy reading. So pumped about it!! Man, it echoes my thoughts about food entirely. I have never thought fat was bad, I just couldn’t buy that one, and I finally have a scientific rationale to back it up! (Of course I do believe saturated fats are bad) I had to make some big adjustments to my CDD to include my Omega 3 supplements and low and behold, SB backs me up! I found that SB does not go deep enough into the benefits of fiber, but if you follow the SB methodology you are guaranteed enough fiber, so it is a small complaint. The glucocagen thing is too cool! Explains why I have lost the weight I have and why a woman in my TOPS group whose only diet is to not eat carbs after 4:00, works.
Thank you for tuning me in!

Eleni, we have a lot of snow here now and temps are around
-20 C. We had such beautiful weather for quite a while and now we are back to a good old prairie winter. I am glad things are quiet and you are not succumbing to weekend temptations.

Nita, I am so glad you are doing fine. I would definitely track that woman down or go to the library and sign out a copy. It is well worth the read, whether you buy into the whole premise or not. You can not eat unlimited fats and proteins, (which I liked, I am always wary of diets that say you can eat unlimited anything) the point of the diet is to eliminate high glucose foods and stabilize insulin production. According to the authors, excess insulin production makes you fat, and they have a very compelling data to back up this thinking.

Donna, I am following the Canadian Diabetic diet, and I am switching to SB as I am finding I am eating less and less in order to continue losing. Since Mid December I have BATTLED! To maintain a loss every week and I am really tired of it. SB is just a hop skip away from SB so the transition is very easy, and so far very effective. What are you doing for diet? I also agree that the lower mainland has excellent Aisin cuisine, yum yum, Pad Thai oooohhhhh!

Mickey, so glad you are OK. Want to be treadmill buds? We could start a new exercise thread.

Well, I gotta scoot, going swimming with my family this afternoon and I have tubs to cleen and laundry to attack.

Have a great day everyone!!!

CC

Been bad today
 

Hi Girls
I thought I better get on here before I ate anymore. As soon as I came home from church. It was like give me something to eat. I had a had full of potatoe chips, 6 wheat thins plus 1oz cheese and 4 cheez-it crackers. Got lunch ready. Had leftover veggie soup. But then I ate 4 slices of Italian bread. Then I wanted something sweet. So I got into the little debbies. And ate 1 dunkin stick.:o Don't know why I did that. :?: Had been doing pretty good this week.

I was wondering you are talking about the WW points. My sister-in-law gave me some books from WW. They are 123 Success. They are about points. Is that what you are talking about. Thought I would start that tomorrow. Since I have blew it today. Hopefully I will at least stay the same this week. We weigh in on Tues. eve. So I will have to be really good the rest of the day today and tomorrow.

Well I better get off here. Hope everybody has a good day.
A TOPS PAL

I'm up for the Treadmill Buds! See you on the treddie...

Hello, Not much time today but wanted to pop in and remind you all to watch those bites today! I'm having a hard time staying out of the kitchen, so think I will drag myself out of the house.

CC... I'm ready for the treadmill (exercise) thread. I have been trying to get on every day, but not always successful. Maybe that would help me be more committed. LET'S DO IT. Any one else up for the challenge? Kermie, glad you are on board!

I haven't had time to read the SB book yet maybe later on tonight when I get back in, I will try to read some.

Have a great day, everyone and remember to not let the week ends ruin your eating plans. It is hard (I'm guilty of the same thing) but we need to work on that.

I HAVE TO LOSE 14 POUNDS BY APRIL 1ST! That is my goal! It is not impossible! Just must remain focused! HELP!!!!!! WE CAN ALL DO IT!

May see you later today.
Mickey

Hey CoCo,

Yes that is what I am doing is the WW 123 plan. It is the old plan just before they changed to the plan they have now called the winning points. I am following that and now doing the SB with it. I had a great weigh in last week and I only made some changes toward the SB plan. I have now switched completly to it. I stayed on the SB plan all day yesterday and so far today. So that is great. I think it is important (for me) to still continue to count my points. I am a person that is a big eater and I know that if I don't weigh and measure my foods then I eat too much of it. I can not judge the amount of food I eat because I always want a lot of it. So I think that with sticking to the points and doing the SB then I will do great. At least this way I know that I am getting in enough calories for the day. I am with CC I also agree that you can not do a diet and eat as much as you want of certain foods and lose weight. If you are a better eater like christie and you don't eat much anyway then you wouldn't have to keep track of what you ate when you did the SB and you would lose because you are not overeating. I know the points work for me. They have before so I am just adding the SB to it.

Don't worry about the mess ups. You have to remember that when you get the hungries there are other things going on at that time (unless you really haven't eaten). When you get that way try drinking a huge glass of water and then having some fruit. I don't do it often. But usually right before I start TOM I get the hungries or when I am really stressed out or mad or something. We have to sit back and realize what is happening then deal with it and then maybe we wouldn't put the food in our mouths. I use dexatrim on occasion. Not very often but it works to take away the hungries and it controls your appetite to get you through those days. We all have them from time to time. I would rather take one of those a couple times a month then to sit and pig out all day for a couple of days and ruin all the hard work I have done to lose the weight.

Christie,
See what you have started girl? You got a lot of people on your band wagon for the SB. I know that carbs are my downfall also. But at least you still get to eat carbs they just have to be the right kind. So how are you doing? Sounds like you enjoyed your day off plan. I did to and ate way too much but I got back on plan yesterday.

Eleni,

Sounds like you had a great weekend. I am glad to hear that you are watching what you eat again. I saw you starting to slide and I know you have done great in the past few weeks. You just have to keep it up. I wish I could say I had my air conditioner on here. We got a little more snow last night and it is cold here. Keep up the great work.

Mickey,

So you are going to jump on the SB band wagon to? I know it really worked for christie. But not all diets work the same for everyone and we have to realize that also. But I think that by cutting down the sugar we would have to have some kind of loss. It seems like we all love our carbs the bad ones for us I should say. I am getting used to the brown rice. I had it for the first time last night. I have to cook it longer tonight. I am going to try and stay away from potatoes this week. I already have the wonder lite wheat that I use now. So I am okay with the bread part. I only have bread for lunch anyway.

CC,

It sure sounds like the SB is working for you in an awesome way. Keep it up. Is it hard for you to follow? I know that it is similar to what you were doing.

As for me here are the answers to your questions. Yes I did get to go out the other night with my husband all alone. It didn't work out like I wanted but we got to go out. We really didn't have dinner. We had to go over to the adult home that night after we dropped off our daughter. We didn't get back from there until 5:45. Then he went to the bar for the after work party and called me to come meet him around 7:15pm. At least he called. We stayed there for awhile. I had a pint of ice cream while I waited for him to come home. We left there and went to the bar we were going to go to. I had a 1/2 of a turkey club and fries and 2 mozzerell sticks and 3 wings. I had a lot of junk as you can see. I did get up and sing 2 songs there. I love doing that. He wouldn't get up to sing but it was fun anyway. We got home around 1am. So it was a great time and I had a few drinks also. I don't ever get to do that so it was nice.:dizzy:
Then we did get his uncle over to the home. It wasn't too easy though. He didn't want to go with me so me and my SIL left and went back to the guys (my husband and his brother) and they went over and my husband got him to go. Me and my SIL took him over while the guys followed. We got him there and started to explain it to him that he was going to live there and he said no I am not staying. It took a long time for him to calm down. We got him to eat lunch and we brought all his things up and got them put away. We went through all his things downstairs while he was upstairs in his room with my husband. My husband almost backed down because he felt so bad and was going to let him come her for a few days. I would have killed him then we would have had to do it all over again. We have no room here and no time to care for him. But we threw out all the bad stuff he had for clothes the holey ones and things which was a lot. But we didn't let him see that. Then the girl (one of the owners) it is her and her husband that own the place took those clothes to the laundry to make sure they were clean for him. My husband signed him in. We got power of attorney on thursday thank god. When we left we snuck out because he was determined to leave when we did. He was watching tv with his roomate in the huge living room when we left. I called last night to check on him and he ate dinner with everyone and he was fine. Then I called this morning and he slept all night and got up without a problem this morning and went and had breakfast with everyone and was wondering around afterward. So I know he will be fine. It is a beautiful old mansion. They have a lot of grounds that he can wander around on in the summertime. And he can help plant a garden there. There are a lot of men in that home so that is nice for him. He just wasn't happy that they took his cigerettes away from him. But he can have one at any time he wants he just has to get a cig from the nurse there.
I told my husband that he has to go visit him that he just can't leave him there and never go back. So I guess he said he would go visit on sundays while me and the little one are in church. So that is good. He will go next week. Today wouldn't have been a good day. We want him to get settled in. We didn't have any problems with my husbands mom like I thought either. She just called last night wanting to know his address getting info for the sister. My husband won't give her the address. They don't need to know where he is. They have taken enough of his money. Now they don't have that and they are nervous. But at least now no one will be taking his money. We are going to open an account at the bank for him to put his extra money in. That way when he passes we will have the money to give him a proper funeral and headstone that he deserves. We will spend his money on him like it should be used for.
So that is how my weekend went. I was so exhausted last night I went to bed at 8pm. I am so glad it is over. I have some loose ends to take care of then It will only be checking in on him and making sure his bills are paid. That is the easy part.
I am trying to decide now for me if I should take another job on. The old couple I clean for want me to start taking care of them. I know it is good money and more then I make at the other job. But I really like the other job and don't want to give it up. I am trying to figure out how to do both. I don't know and I have to come up with an answer to that this week. So my mind will be busy this week with that. It is always something isn't it. I have to sit down with the couple to find out exactly what they need me to do. I hate to tell them no because I really like them but I am only one person and I have a family to take care of as well. But we need the money. So I am confused and don't know what way to turn. But I will figure something out.

To everyone it sounds like we had a great weekend. I know I did. I am happy I stayed on plan all weekend. I know I will have a loss this week as well.

Here is a suggestion to do at your meetings. We are going to start doing it next week but we kind of already started last week.
What you do is you get a buddy for the week. We are going to be choosing a poker chip with a number on it when we come in from now on. That number will match another number that someone else has. That will be your buddy for the week. You have to keep in touch throughout the week and help the other lose the weight or give support while you receive support from them. You sit next to your buddy at the meeting. The next week your buddy changes. That way you eliminate the clicks you get with everyone sitting in the same spot with the same people. You also get a chance to know the others in the group. I think it is great. They used to do it a long time ago until a family joined and didn't want to do it because they didn't want to be split up. So they stopped doing it. I think it is great. We had an old member join again last week and my sister went as a guest. She is going to join this week and she is trying to convince my parents to join. I tried to get my mom to join when I did before but she never would. So she is trying to get my dad to join so they can do it together. I think it is great. Our group is growing so fast it is great. Now if we can keep the meetings going when the leader isn't there.

You all have a great night and I will talk to you soon. I am going back to the gym tomorrow for my reward date with me. I am looking forward to it.:D

Nita,

Sounds like you are on the right track. I am glad your husband is doing well this time. Sounds like the predisone is working also. I take that when I have an asthma attack.
I wish you good luck with your open house. Sounds like you have a great night planned. The king should be inspirational to you all. I hope you can beat the loss you had last year and that would really impress him.LOL
Take it one day at a time. You are on the right track keep up the great work. I am sure you will have a loss this week.

Sherri